Alec Ryrie is an award-winning historian whose work focuses on the Reformation and Protestantism. His writing delves deeply into the history of faith and its impact on the modern world. Ryrie explores the emotional landscape of doubt, offering a nuanced examination of how Protestant identity took shape. His contributions to historical scholarship are significant, providing readers with compelling and insightful narratives.
The first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640. The focus is on material reality and the real experience of actual believers, drawn from diaries and other direct testimonies.
A lively history set in sixteenth-century England, detailing the hitherto unknown case of an extraordinary physician, magician, and con-man named Gregory Wisdom - and the London underworld to which he belonged.